Office of the Historian

711.3227/131a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery)

Washington, June 23, 1944—9 p.m.

1928. The Department is issuing an invitation to the Brazilian Government through the Embassy here to hold bilateral exploratory conversations for the purpose of exchanging views on post-war aviation, with particular reference to the development of international air transport. During these conversations we plan to submit a draft of [Page 566] a proposed bilateral agreement on international air transport for the study and comments of the Brazilian Government.

Accordingly, the Department believes that unless you have already commenced negotiations, you should not now submit the draft civil aviation agreement which was forwarded to you with the Department’s instruction 5691, March 2, 1944.51

Because of the special situation existing in regard to airports in Brazil, there will be included in the draft air transport agreement52 an article similar to Article 22 of the draft agreement sent to you on March 2d.53

Hull
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Discussion of this proposed agreement appears to have been indefinitely deferred in favor of proposed multilateral conventions on air navigation and air transport. For correspondence on these general agreements, see vol. ii, pp. 355 ff.↩
  3. Draft agreement of March 2 not printed.↩